Harry Goodwin (cricketer)


Harry Smyth Goodwin was a cricketer of the nineteenth century, born in Glamorgan, Wales but playing for Gloucestershire between 1896 and 1907. A righthanded batsman, Goodwin was an alumnus of Rossall School in Lancashire, for whom he played two matches in 1889. He playedmatches for Gloucestershire, though aside from the 1897 cricket season he often played only a small number of games each year. He scored 564 runs at a batting average of 12.40, and a best of 46. He was later President of Horsham Cricket Club.

Goodwin was born in 1870 in Merthyr Tydfil, at the time a mining town for iron ore, coal and limestone in Glamorgan, Wales. He was schooled in Lancashire, attending Rossall School and playing cricket there. In these school matches he batted in the top order, scoring five andagainst Loretto School onJune 1889 while batting at three. He also took a fivewicket haul with his bowling though his bowling style is not recorded, and he did not bowl during his first class career. OnJune he played against Malvern College and scored 72 andopening the batting, but did not bowl.

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